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This development came alongside the growth of the Civil Rights movements and its corollary, the Ethnic Pride movement, which led to the creation of Ethnic Studies programs in most major universities.

led and Stores
In 1986 Edward Finkelstein, Chairman & CEO of R. H. Macy & Co., Inc., led a leveraged buy-out of the company and subsequently engaged in a takeover battle for Federated Department Stores, Inc., in 1988 that he lost to Canada's Campeau Corporation.
Federated followed that by leading a bid in mid-1995 to acquire the bankrupt Woodward & Lothrop / John Wanamaker organization in the mid-Atlantic region, a bid it lost to rival group led by long-time rival and future acquisition target The May Department Stores Company.
* March 1961: Green Bay Mayor Roman Denissen and Shopco Stores, led by Chicago pharmacist James Ruben and a group of investors, announce plans for a $ 1 million department store on Military Avenue.
British Home Stores had intended to continue trading from their Dudley store even after the opening of their new Merry Hill store in November 1989, but a sharp fall in trade led to the decision to close the Dudley store being taken in February 1990, with the store finally closing in June that year.
After some years, the company's board of directors led by Mike France, bought the company back in October 2001 for £ 30m, being backed by 3i, before selling it to Tim Waterstone ( who founded Waterstones bookstores ) under the name Eagle Retail Investments for £ 62m in April 2004 and he joined it with his Daisy & Tom chain of shops within the " Chelsea Stores Group ".

led and selling
Nevertheless, these financially troubled leagues, by beginning the practice of selling players to the more affluent National and American leagues, embarked on a path that eventually led to the loss of their independent status.
With the change to " nickelodeon " exhibition there was also a change, led by Pathé in 1907, from selling films outright to renting them through film exchanges.
In the 1980s, sales and oil prices slipped, while debt from acquisitions piled up which led to the selling off its 52. 9 % stake in HBOG to Dome Petroleum.
The report implicated many government officials in the selling of contract labour and recommended that they be replaced by Europeans or Americans, which generated anger within Liberia and led to the resignation of President Charles D. B.
While the Lusitani celebrated this new alliance, he massacred them, selling the survivors as slaves ; this caused a new rebellion led by Viriathus, who was soon killed by traitors paid by the Romans in 139 BC, after having led a successful guerrilla campaign against Rome and their local allies.
In the last few years drug tourism and certain strains of cannabis with higher concentrations of THC have challenged the former policy in the Netherlands and led to a more restrictive approach ; for example, a ban on selling cannabis to tourists in coffee shops suggested to start late 2011.
The low returns of a pub-owning business led to many breweries selling their pub estates, especially those in cities, often to a new generation of small companies, many of which have now grown considerably and have a national presence.
In the 19th century, the threat to the balance of payments of the United Kingdom from Chinese merchants demanding payment in silver in exchange for tea, silk, and porcelain led to the Opium War because Britain had to find a way to address the imbalance in the balance of payments, and they decided to do so by selling opium produced in their colony of British India to China.
He led one of the most enduring dictatorial regimes in Africa and amassed a personal fortune estimated to be over US $ 5 billion by selling his nation's rich natural resources while his nation's people lived in poverty.
In 1952 he founded and led the Ordnance Engineering Corporation, selling the company to Aerojet General Corporation in 1956 and becoming Aerojet's Atlantic Division president.
Political fallout from the 1929 crash led Congress to enact a law banning short sellers from selling shares during a downtick ; this was known as the uptick rule, and this was in effect until July 3, 2007 when it was removed by the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC Release No. 34-55970 ).
Increased interest in waterfront property in the 1990s, combined with the devastation of Hurricane Isabel, has led to revitalization, with some new homes selling for more than $ 1 million.
The local Republican team led by Kacey Dyer and Mark Caliguire proposed selling all of the land to Somerset County to create a passive-use park.
Beverley Minster was almost demolished by its new owners who wanted to profit from selling its stone and lead, however the local people led by wealthy merchant Richard Gray saved it from this fate.
The lapse of patents in recent years, such as for the Moog synthesizer transistor ladder filter, has led to a small resurgence in DIY or kit synthesizer modules, as well as an increase in the number of commercial companies selling analog modules.
Bush's albums include the aforementioned Sixteen Stone, Razorblade Suitcase ( recorded by Steve Albini ), Deconstructed, The Science of Things, and Golden State, all albums had much success in terms of albums sales, which led Bush to be one of the best selling rock groups to come out of the nineties.
Philadelphia was captured in 1803, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur led a raid which successfully burned the captured ship, preventing Tripoli from using or selling it.
While investors were attempting hostile takeovers of Disney with the intention on dismantling the company and selling off its assets, Roy organized a consortium of white knight investors to fend off the takeover attempts which led to Eisner and Wells being brought on.
Their first single, " Rock Lobster ", recorded for DB Records in 1978, was an underground success, selling over 2, 000 copies in total that led to The B-52s performing at CBGB and Max's Kansas City in New York City.
Repetitive story lines, questionable booking issues, and corporate restrictions eventually led the promotion to begin losing large amounts of money, leading to parent company AOL Time Warner selling the name copyrights to the WWF for $ 2. 5 million in 2001.
This led to a special market on this day selling the radishes along with two other popular Christmas plant materials, the Flor Inmortal ( immortal flower ) and corn husks.
Back home, the famine has caught up with Joseph's brothers, who – led by the brother Simeon – express regret at selling him and deceiving their father (" Those Canaan Days ").

led and Volume
An increasing acceptance of the importance of central obesity within the medical profession as an indicator of health risk has led to new developments in obesity diagnosis such as the Body Volume Index, which measures central obesity by measuring a person's body shape and their weight distribution.
The Army Field Manual comprises Volumes 1 ( Combined Arms Operations ) in 12 parts led by " Formation Tactics " and " Battlegroup Tactics ", and Volume 2 ( Operations in Specific Environments ) in 6 parts ( desert, urban, etc.
He obeyed ; and, having much leisure, connected another subject with it ; and, pursuing the train of thought to which his situation and turn of mind led him, brought forth at length, instead of the trifle which he at first intended, a serious affair — a Volume!
* Quintessential Billie Holiday, Volume 8 ( 1940 date led by Billie Holiday, Columbia Records )
This led to him being featured on the cover of " Practical Astronomy " magazine ( Volume 1, number 5, dated March 1995 ).
In 1985, jazz fusion band Cargo, led by Mike Carr, released the single " Jazz Rap ", appearing on the album Jazz Rap, Volume One.
A lot of the research that led to the development of PDP was done in the 1970s, but PDP became popular in the 1980s with the release of the books Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition-Volume 1 ( foundations ) and Volume 2 ( Psychological and Biological Models ), by James L. McClelland, David E. Rumelhart and the PDP Research Group.
Kerr ’ s second memoir, The Gold and the Blue: A Personal Memoir of the University of California, 1949-1967 Volume Two: Political Turmoil details what he refers to as his greatest blunders in dealing with the Free Speech Movement that ultimately led to his firing.
Hun Neang's paternal grandparents were wealthy landowners of Teochew Chinese heritage .< ref > Forest ( 2008 ), p. 178 Time ( Magazine ), Volume 136 ( 1990 ), p. 329 Hun Neang inherited some of his family assets and led a relatively comfortable life, as they owned several hectares of land until a kidnapping incident forced their family to sell off much of their assets.
Their album Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails contains the song The Yankee Flipper, a tribute to their friend Jack McDowell and a confession that a long night of drinking with the musicians may have led to the infamous finger to the crowd.
Around the time the band signed to Volume, Olga moved to Newton Hall, in north Durham, which led to the song " Livin ' on Newton Hall ".
In March 2007, Reid played with Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and G. Calvin Weston at Tonic in NYC, and Tritone in Philadelphia, which led them to record as Free Form Funky Freqs with the title of the recording called Urban Mythology Volume 1.
Some time after the events of Volume 3, an American reconnaissance team led by George Yamada covertly arrives in the ruined Neo-Tokyo.
His most recent Science and Religion Series held at 5 of China's top universities ( Wuhan University, ( Wuhan ), Fudan University, ( Shanghai ), Shandong University, ( Jinan ), Peking University, ( Beijing ), and Tsinghua University, ( Beijing )) led to a multi-volume work in two editions: a 5-volume Chinese edition ,《 科学与宗教的对话 》(" Science and Religion in Dialogue "), published by Peking University Press, Beijing ( Volumes I, III, IV and V ) and Fudan University Press ( Volume II )), and an English 2-volume edition, " Science and Religion in Dialogue " published by Wiley-Blackwell of Oxford.
The investigator's research led to Volume XXVI of The History of the Counter Intelligence Corps.

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